Royal College of Art graduate Julian Melchiorri has developed a “man-made biological leaf,” made from chloroplasts and a silk product, that produces oxygen the same way a real plant does. As Melchiorri explains in the video, that could be a boon for space exploration.
There are a number of things that we can do get a space colony up and running soon, but the need for oxygen is something that cannot be worked around. As Melchiorri explains in the video above, his man-made material could very well be the solution to that problem.
https://gizmodo.com/8-things-we-can-do-now-to-build-a-space-colony-this-cen-1631995142
https://gizmodo.com/when-did-we-discover-that-we-needed-oxygen-to-live-1598401293
